Been up to…

For starters here is my progress of my first sock…

Cool, huh? Next Monday, I get to learn about creating the heel. Should be fun!

This week has been busy and stressful(on my part). The stress is from several sources, including T. whom ran away for about 20 minutes last week and given my own anxiety issues a huge boost in the process. Still haven’t really come down from that event and probably won’t anytime soon. He wasn’t hurt or anything, just scared as after he ran away into our back pasture and neighbors overgrown land, he got lost. He says he ran away because his brother never plays with him anymore. What can I do about that? Nothing, his brother is older and they don’t tend to play on the same level anymore. He is going to have to learn to adjust to that loss, or make himself and all others around him miserable over it. So that was one episode of stress. Then I am in search for a middle school or high school program suitable to meet B.’s needs for 8th/9th grade this coming year. Let me tell you how challenging it is to find a good online school that isn’t outrageously expensive and has the curriculum choices and accreditation I need. No matter which one I choose, out of the many, I will still have to come up with minimally $3000 for the school year for one child. B. really needs this change in his curriculum, so now I have to figure out how I can make this happen. Anyone win the lottery and have a few grand to lend to a stranger? LOL
Other than these two biggies, I am dealing with T. and B. on a daily basis of having many ups and downs and explosions left and right. This in between seasons stuff is not going over well in our household. We have all had enough of winter and need to play outdoors in some warm
weather and sunshine.
Though through the stress we have managed to do some fun things and relax. And still get stuff done. Monday, we went to the TheaterWorks Presentation of Paul Revere’s Ride, whilst not historically accurate, very funny and entertaining. We proceeded this play with many EdVideo shows on various subjects. Fractions, writing composition, Reading Music, and multiplication. On Tuesday, we watched the TheaterWorks presentation of Junie B. Jones, which was fantastically done! Not what I was expecting at all and hilariously funny. Later that day we broke open our packages of Hot Dots that arrived the day before. This is a really great idea! Flash cards for all subjects that works with a self-checking talking pen. You touch the answer on the card and the pen tells you weather you are correct or not. I got all the math sets and want the reading comprehension sets. T. played with the multiplication card set for a while.
Today, is my sisters birthday. She is 31 this year, I think. I always forget to send something or do something for it. She must think I am awful for it. Se va.
We started out day, with T. taking up his cursive work and working through several pages of workbook sheets. B. is almost finished with his Key To..Fractions book2, mulitplication and division of Fractions. We start the 3rd book tomorrow, so I can then proceed to giving him his CAT to submit results for his year end assessment. How I hate living in NY and homeschooling. All this arbitrary junk to government institutions that have nothing in relation to what we actually do at home. It really is useless and silly the way they think they have placed these regulations upon homeschoolers, thinking they have control. NY is really big on Controlling every little thing. Oh well, I play the game and still keep it real for us.
We have playgroup this afternoon, which is another stressful event for me, as I have to follow T. like a dog to ensure he is not getting in trouble while socializing with other children. Maybe, I will be lucky and today will be easy to move him in the right directions, rather than getting hit in the process. We’ll see.